Stay ConnectedJoin Harvard psychiatrist Dr. Adam Stern and journalist/pop-culture enthusiast Jordana Horn as they discuss the interior lives of YOUR favorite fictional TV icons. From the classics to binge-worthy shows that everyone’s talking about right now, get ready to dive into the pathologies that earned these characters a spot in the cultural zeitgeist.
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Jordana and Adam dive into the unique perspectives and broken psyches in the mesmerizing, thoughtful, and original take on middle-aged discontent, better known as Fleishman Is In Trouble.
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Jordana and Adam discuss the deeply troubling psychological state of Industry and the messy recipe of extreme behavior, high salaries, and selling your soul.
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Jordana and Adam delve into the mesmerizing, fascinating, darkly fantastic and flawed character of Wednesday Addams.
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Jordana and Adam discuss HBO Max's Sex Lives of College Girls as the show's characters explore identity, individuation, sense of self, and enormous amounts of sex.
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Jordana and Adam discuss Season 2 of the HBO smash hit The White Lotus. Circling around themes of toxic masculinity, identity within relationships, and murder on the Mediterranean, Characters on the Couch has you covered.
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Jordana and Adam talk about grief and loss through the eyes of our favorite morally ambiguous comic book witch, Wanda Maximoff. If grief is love persevering, what is it when someone makes flesh-muppets out of an entire town to cope with their own personal loss? On this, Characters on the Couch has got you covered. Let’s delve in.
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Jordana and Adam circle back to The Patient and try to make sense of the psychology of a sociopath who locks his therapist in his basement. They delve into what works, what doesn’t, and all the ways they saw this show from entirely different perspectives.
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Jordana and Adam discuss the psychology of why so many of us are still drawn to men and women in capes. From the complex, damaged psyches of Batman and Ironman to the societal exclusion of the X-Men, we delve in to better understand what still draws us in decades later.
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Jordana and Adam discuss Apple TV’s Loot, starring Maya Rudolph as a woman trying to find happiness and herself in the setting of a difficult divorce along with tens of billions of dollars. Can she find a way to a life filled with meaning and self-worth?
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For the first time, Jordana and Adam preview a show – The Patient – because the premise is so good and ready for dissection! Join in as they discuss the challenges, tensions, and impossibilities of trying to help a psychopathic serial killer while chained up in his basement. This show is going to be intense and a wildly worthwhile experience.
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